2nd Grade Writing-Essays Printables

Want a fun way to help your learner's focus on their interests? This resource breaks down a learning project into mini steps that aren't overwhelming for young learners. Just choose a topic to explore and let the learning begin.

This resource includes:

- A KWL chart-

- Two options for facts gathered when doing research from an online source or a book of your choice

- A space to create a rough draft

- A cover sheet to create an illustration to go along with your learning project

- Two options for writing paper to allow for different aged writers

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8.5 x 11 inches, 200 Pages Blank Pages Paper, College Ruled, Lined Journal & Music Sheet for Writing and Music Composition

Perfect for teachers and students to write in everything they want

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Print and laminate this checklist for students to use as a bookmark or a writing checklist throughout the year.

Spark your students' imaginations with these engaging Easter-themed narrative writing prompts! This bundle offers two exciting storylines to inspire creative writing and storytelling.

What's Included:

• Benny the Bunny's Easter Surprise: Challenge students to write a story about a silent bunny who can only speak on Easter Day. Encourage them to develop the plot, characters, and setting to create a captivating tale.
• Not Bunny, But... Egg-cellent Surprise! Ignite curiosity with this unexpected twist! Students will craft a story around a creature that hatches from an Easter egg, exploring imaginative possibilities and character development.

These writing prompts offer opportunities for students to practice descriptive language, plot development, and character building while having fun with the Easter theme.

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Unleash your students' creativity with this Halloween-themed writing bundle!

This engaging resource combines narrative writing and persuasive writing prompts to inspire your students' imaginations and hone their writing skills.

What's Included:

• Narrative Writing Prompts: Spooky and fun prompts to encourage students to write creative stories.
• Persuasive Writing Prompts: Topics related to Halloween that require students to argue their point of view.
• Writing Templates: Optional templates to provide structure and guidance for students.
• Rubric: A scoring rubric to help students assess their writing.

How it Works:

1. Choose a Prompt: Students select a narrative or persuasive writing prompt.
2. Plan and Write: Students brainstorm ideas, develop a plot, and write their story or persuasive piece.
3. Revise and Edit: Students review their writing for clarity, coherence, and grammar.
4. Share and Reflect: Students share their work with classmates and receive feedback.

Benefits:

• Engaging and Fun: The Halloween theme makes writing more exciting and enjoyable.
• Improves Writing Skills: Helps students develop their narrative and persuasive writing abilities.
• Sparks Creativity: Encourages students to think outside the box and create unique stories.
• Promotes Critical Thinking: Challenges students to analyze and argue their point of view.

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This fun and engaging burger-themed rubric makes writing expectations clear and understandable for students. With four clear levels of achievement, this rubric provides valuable guidance for students to improve their writing skills.

What's Included:

• Four-Level Rubric: Detailed criteria for each level, from "Incomplete Work" to "Above and Beyond," covering essential writing elements.
• Versatile Format: Suitable for both classroom posters and individual student printouts as a guide for each student's binder/writing assignment.

⭐Writing Attempts:

Narrative
Christmas: Trapped in a Snow Globe | My Snowman Came to Life
Thanksgiving: How the Turkey Escaped Thanksgiving Dinner | How the Turkey Escaped Thanksgiving Dinner

Others: Journey to the Center of the Earth | Forms of Energy in my Car - Science, Art & WRITING Project

Easter: Benny the Bunny - Easter's Surprise | NOT Bunny - Eggcelent Easter/Spring Surprise

Halloween: Trapped in a Haunted House

Persuasive | Dear Santa - Villains Edition | Who Will Guide the Sleigh | Halloween: Can I Keep My Witch?

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This fun and engaging burger-themed rubric makes writing expectations clear and understandable for students. With four clear levels of achievement, this rubric provides valuable guidance for students to improve their writing skills.

What's Included:

• Four-Level Rubric: Detailed criteria for each level, from "Incomplete Work" to "Above and Beyond," covering essential writing elements.
• Versatile Format: Suitable for both classroom posters and individual student printouts as a guide for each student's binder/writing assignment.

⭐Writing Attempts:

Narrative
Christmas: Trapped in a Snow Globe | My Snowman Came to Life
Thanksgiving: How the Turkey Escaped Thanksgiving Dinner | How the Turkey Escaped Thanksgiving Dinner

Others: Journey to the Center of the Earth | Forms of Energy in my Car - Science, Art & WRITING Project

Easter: Benny the Bunny - Easter's Surprise | NOT Bunny - Eggcelent Easter/Spring Surprise

Halloween: Trapped in a Haunted House

Persuasive | Dear Santa - Villains Edition | Who Will Guide the Sleigh | Halloween: Can I Keep My Witch?

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Distance Learning is enabled! This product is especially fun for your class Thanksgiving writing projects! It is a fun engaging writing task your students will enjoy. Prep Free! Ready to go!

Task:

1. Each student is going to write four pages of three list of thanks using the Thanksgiving Craft Book pages. List 1: thanks to people in his life; List 2: thanks to technologies and inventions what make his life easier and better; List 3: thanks to natural objects for what they have been helping him.

2. Each student will come up with his own lists and reasons to thank for.

Step by step assignment directions are giving using Teacher Writing Sample "Thanks on Thanksgiving Day" as a model.

You could use this Thanksgiving Craft Book to write anything related to Thanksgiving.

This product includes:

- 2 Colored sets

- 2 Black lined sets

- Lesson Plan for Thanks on Thanksgiving Day Project

- Step by Step Assignment Directions

- 1 Teacher Thanks on Thanksgiving Day Writing Sample

- 4 Student Thanks on Thanksgiving Day Writing Samples

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Your students will love writing on this Dr. Seuss, cat in the hat writing paper. Use this paper for Read Across America Day or anytime you are reading books with Dr. Seuss. This pack includes paper in various line styles appropriate for kindergarten through upper elementary students. This pack also includes a blank hat with no writing lines. Your students will love displaying their work on these writing pages!

Inspire Your Students with Our Thanksgiving Turkey-Themed Writing Paper!

Perfect for fall and Thanksgiving activities, this fun turkey-shaped writing paper will make assignments more engaging. With charming clip art turkeys surrounding the main shape, students will enjoy writing their thoughts and stories in a festive way! Choose from six different line styles to fit your classroom needs, and each style is available with or without name and date lines for added convenience.

Ideal for creative writing, thankfulness prompts, or Thanksgiving-themed reflections, this paper adds a seasonal touch to any assignment.

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❤️Looking for engaging Arctic and Polar animal writing crafts this winter? Practice informative, narrative, personal narrative, or persuasive writing with these differentiated winter animal writing crafts!

✅ Winter animals included: (10)

☑ Arctic fox, Arctic hare, Arctic wolf, moose, narwhal, polar bear, puffin, seal, snowy owl, walrus

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✏️Students can choose or be assigned an animal and write all about them! Use for research reports or simply as a writing craft!

✏️Build confidence with differentiation! Color, trace and write with different line spacing and types (dotted vs. solid lines)!

✏️Easy to make crafts! Color a picture of the animal, write and glue the writing project onto a piece of construction paper.

✏️Full size writing sheets included if additional writing space is needed. Staple the pages together.

✏️You can also put the projects together to create a winter animal booklet, or send home to share with parents!

✏️ Create eye-catching bulletin boards, hallway displays, class booklets, coloring pages, and more!

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⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print and select the differentiated writing page that is most appropriate for each student's needs.

⭐️Comes in both a fun colorful set or a printer friendly black & white set! Use the black & white set as coloring pages!

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✅Includes: (78 pages)

✅Brainstorming Maps: (4 pages)

☑ Informative writing

☑ Narrative writing

☑ Personal narrative writing

☑ Persuasive writing

✅Differentiated writing projects: (74 pages)

☑ “This is a ____” tracing – dotted lines (10 pages)

☑ “This is a ____” writing – dotted lines (10 pages)

☑ “This is a ____” writing – solid lines (10 pages)

☑ Full page writing – large dotted lines (11 pages)

☑ Full page writing – medium dotted lines (11 pages)

☑ Full page writing – large solid lines (11 pages)

☑ Full page writing – medium solid lines (11 pages)

✅Bonus: (81 pages)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

☑ Table of contents (2 pages)

☑ Black & white set (78 pages)

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✅ Winter animals: (10)

☑ Arctic fox

☑ Arctic hare

☑ Arctic wolf

☑ moose

☑ narwhal

☑ polar bear

☑ puffin

☑ seal

☑ snowy owl

☑ walrus

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Winter Activities Growing Bundle

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❤️Looking for engaging writing crafts to celebrate Women's History Month this February? Practice writing, literacy, and fine motor skills with these easy, differentiated Women's History writing crafts!

✅ Women's History figures included:

☑ Maya Lin, Bessie Coleman, Harriet Tubman, Kala Bagai, Maria Tallchief, Rita Moreno, Helen Keller, Sojourner Truth, Pat Danner, Barbara Jean Lee

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✏️Students can choose a historical hero and write all about them!

✏️Build confidence with differentiation! Color, draw and write with different line spacing and types (dotted vs. solid lines)!

✏️Easy to make crafts! Color or draw a picture of the figure and glue the writing project onto a piece of construction paper.

✏️Full size writing sheets included if additional writing space is needed. Staple the pages together.

✏️You can also put the projects together to create a Women's History Month booklet, or send home to share with parents!

✏️ Create eye-catching bulletin boards, hallway displays, class booklets, coloring pages, and more!

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⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print out the writing pages and select the differentiated writing page that is most appropriate for each student's needs.

⭐️Comes in both a fun colorful set or a printer friendly black & white set! Use the black & white set as coloring pages!

⭐️Check out the preview and preview video for a sneak peek!

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✅Includes: (175 pages total)

✅Writing Prompts: (1 page)

• Optional questions to promote student creativity

✅Biography Sheets: (10 pages)

• Birth date
• Birth place
• Early Life
• Accomplishments

✅Extra writing sheets (4 pages)

☑ Full size writing sheets

✅Each woman includes 16 differentiated pages: (160 pages total)

Differentiated pages include: (16 pages x 10 figures)

☑ Color & write - single medium lines - blank (1 page)

☑ Color & write - single medium lines - writing prompt (1 page)

☑ Color & write - single large lines - blank (1 page)

☑ Color & write - single large lines - writing prompt (1 page)

☑ Draw & write - single medium lines - blank (1 page)

☑ Draw & write - single medium lines - writing prompt (1 page)

☑ Draw & write - single large lines - blank (1 page)

☑ Draw & write - single large lines - writing prompt (1 page)

☑ Color & write - double medium lines - blank (1 page)

☑ Color & write - double medium lines - writing prompt (1 page)

☑ Color & write - double large lines - blank (1 page)

☑ Color & write - double large lines - writing prompt (1 page)

☑ Draw & write - double medium lines - blank (1 page)

☑ Draw & write - double medium lines - writing prompt (1 page)

☑ Draw & write - double large lines - blank (1 page)

☑ Draw & write - double large lines - writing prompt (1 page)

✅Bonus: (178 pages)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

☑ Table of contents (2 pages)

☑ Black & white set (175 pages)

✅ Figures included: (10)

☑ Maya Lin - architect - (Asian American)

☑ Bessie Coleman - pilot - (African American)

☑ Harriet Tubman - liberator - (African American)

☑ Kala Bagai - activist - (South Asian American)

☑ Maria Tallchief - ballerina - (Native American)

☑ Rita Moreno - actress - (Hispanic American)

☑ Helen Keller - author - (American with disabilities)

☑ Sojourner Truth - advocate - (African American)

☑ Pat Danner - politician - (Arab American)

☑ Barbara Jean Lee - politician - (African American)

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Women's History Growing Bundle

⭐️Looking for more writing crafts?

Writing Craft Growing Bundle

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Looking to make your classroom more welcoming this back to school season?

This bright Writing Center Banner is a great way to welcome students and visitors into your classroom each day! It will liven up your space and motivate your students....plus, it's so cute!! Prints two letters per page for a total of 8 pages. There are also three printable pencils in different colors which can be printed out and attached to the banner to your liking.

**For personal and single classroom use only. If using with multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses at the discounted rate.**

Best of all, this banner coordinated perfectly with my best-selling Writing Tools Folder: get your students writing at a higher level by offering them a colorful and coordinated reference for your Writing Center!! This reference guide is ideal for middle school students to use during independent writing assignments. Whether it is class work, center work, writing workshop, or homework, it provides quality writing The pages can be placed in a folder, booklet, or even displayed in a writing center. It helps eliminate questions and shows students ways to write effectively. This is going to help your students work independently while writing. This product is geared toward middle school but can also be used in upper elementary. I make a bunch of these Writing Tools Folders and keep them in my Writing Center and love how it helps students become more organized and independent while writing.

This resource includes 8 Anchor Charts and 3 Cover Page Options

Character Traits which comes in 4 different colors with chevron and swirls styles. The chart contains over 100 character traits that students can use to refer to during various writing activities.

Elaboration Stems which features writing stems students can use while elaborating on evidence in their essays. This chart is essential because students can refer to them while writing but gradually start incorporating them as it becomes a force of habit.

**Other Ways to Say...**which offers students multiple synonyms for overused words such as happy or sad. Great for displaying in your writing center!

Transitions which includes a strong set of transitions every writer should be using to aid in the flow of their writing, whether it's for emphasizing, giving an example or concluding an essay!

Said is Dead! which features other words for said, which is terribly overused in my classroom when there are tons of better choices!

Use This...Not That! which features better word choices for commonly used words and expressions.

Mood...which offers a great choice of words that depict either a positive, negative, or neutral mood!

Tone...which offers a great choice of words that depict either a positive, negative, or neutral tone!

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Benefits of the Sentence Builder Bundle

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Our Sentence Builder Bundle provides a comprehensive collection of engaging worksheets and activities, all in one place. This resource streamlines lesson planning, allowing educators to focus more on teaching rather than searching for materials.

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Purchasing individual resources can be costly. With this bundle, you get a variety of high-quality materials at a fraction of the price, making it an economical choice for teachers.

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This bundle caters to different learning styles, ensuring that every student benefits. By investing in this resource, you not only save money but also gain versatile teaching tools for multiple grade levels and subjects.

"Real-Photo Sentence Builder Worksheets"

Bring sentences to life with these interactive, real-photo worksheets! Each half-page worksheet features a vivid photo along with prompts for "Who?", "Where?", and "When?" to guide students in building descriptive sentences. After considering each question, students write a complete sentence, reinforcing observation and writing skills. With 40 half-page sheets, this set is perfect for literacy centers, writing practice, or engaging independent work. These real-photo prompts make sentence-building relatable and fun, spark

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Free Fall Sentence Writing Prompts with Picture Box | 1st & 2nd Grades | Occupational Therapy Support

This free resource offers fun and engaging fall-themed sentence writing prompts designed specifically for 1st and 2nd grade students. Perfect for occupational therapy support, these worksheets help develop fine motor skills while encouraging creativity and structured writing. Each page includes a picture box for students to draw their ideas before writing, fostering both imagination and sentence-building skills.

With 20 writing papers featuring fall-related images, this resource is ideal for use in the classroom or therapy sessions to make writing practice enjoyable and educational.

How to Format a Paper Poster | Writing | Classroom Decor | Classroom Posters

Learning how to properly format a paper can be a hurdle for many students. This full-color poster is the perfect visual aid to display how to arrange the student's name, date, and title on the paper, as well as how to stay within the margins.

Printing tip: Print at a local print shop for desired size, or print using the poster setting on ADOBE.

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Grab these 16 opinion writing worksheets with cute coloring pages and watch your students' love for writing soar! The class can choose the coloring page they like, and then write about their favorite foods. They will love it so much, they will want to choose more coloring pages and write about all their favorite foods!

These opinion writing worksheets are perfect for:

• homework
• morning work
• reluctant writers
• differentiated writing activity
• independent work
• fun group work

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Do your students need some topic sentence practice? This topic vs. main idea digital lesson will have your students master topic sentences, main ideas, and the difference between the two.

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~Google Slides lesson

~Built-in reward system via mystery puzzle

~3 Worksheets to reinforce the concepts learned in the lesson

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This pumpkin bundle for October and november is wonderful for weekly or monthly spelling tests. Each product is fall theme and contains different number of words, it keeps learners engaged while working! It offers a variety of printables (10, 15, 20 and 25 words spelling test papers , versions: dotted lines, single lines, etc.) that can best fit your classroom needs!

This sheet can be used for: Spelling pre-test, Spelling test, Writing test and Sentence Dictations, It is nice because it is pre-numbered and has primary lines for neat handwriting. Perfect for educators seeking efficiency and clarity, this resource includes two versions: One with single-line paper featuring regular numbers, and another with dotted-line paper.

Ways to use this product:

• Whole Group Instruction
• Small Group Instruction
• Homework
• Centers
• Special Education
• Distance Learning

Why use this resource:

• Festive Theme: Engaging fall pumpkins design makes learning fun.
• Eco-Friendly: Two templates per page to reduce paper waste.
• Pre-Test Version: Helps assess student knowledge before the main test.
• Color Options: Available in black-and-white and color for flexibility.
• Variety in Format: Handwriting and normal lines cater to different needs.
• Time-Saving: Ready-to-use template simplifies lesson preparation.
• Versatile: Adaptable for various grade levels and spelling lists.

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• Polygons for beginners.
• Coordinate for beginners.
• Fractions for beginners.

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